My God. What a genius move, to have such a powerful performer bust out that monologue on the fly during an intervew. Hats off to the camera operators and director as well, who shot it so well. The in-house audience will probably remember that experience forever.

Thanks for sharing it!

historical note:

this play had many authors, constantly revised

historians believe for this speech lines such as

"For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another."

and

"but chartered unto them?
What would you think To be thus used?
This is the stranger's case,
And this your mountanish inhumanity"

are directly attributable to Shakespeare's hand

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thom…

I really like such historical perspectives. I also like the part of Plato's Laws where he says that the rich shouldn't have more than 4 times what the poor have otherwise social unrest will follow. He said it more than 2000 years ago.

Reminds us that progress is not inevitable, but is a constant struggle. In some ways, we actually regressed compared to some previous civilizations

The full interview with Sir Ian is here on YouTube, in proper landscape format.

(Prior to delivering the soliloquy, he goes on a tangent involving the tune "Some Enchanted Evening" by Rodgers & Hammerstein, which is also well worth watching.)

youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag

Nothing in humankind is ever new, the mechanisms universal…

And a most excellent lecture and presentation by Ian McKellen!

Simply marvelous.

400 years ago.

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i found it on reddit

but that reddit account, the account you mention, all such accounts, including mine, deserve no credit

the credit belongs to "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert"